Actually the copyright holder can withdraw a GPL-ed work's license.
The catch/save/whatever you want to call it is that the GPL was what gave other people the right to copy that work and redistribute to their heart's content. The other people are however restricted to the conditions of the GPL for redistributing the work and any further changes to it. They do, however, hold copyright to the new work added in.
This is also how a copyright holder can take a GPL'd work private with new modifications. The new stuff isn't licensed and they have the right to use the old stuff as the copyright holder and aren't thus bound to the GPL conditions for using the old stuff.
There's also this account of the accident that ends with:
This incident included a hydrogen-oxygen explosion and the melting of some uranium fuel,
yet the release was contained. It's just that the days when everything goes wrong at the nuclear plant are pretty scary.
More information here that would suggest that the water was pumped out into a field specifically for dealing with and monitoring the waste not simply pumped out of a basement to empty the basement.
I think the people making the most noise right now are the ones claiming that by not signing Kyoto we've doomed the planet. Of course, they do this to lay tha blame at the feet of the current President rather than acknowledge that Kyoto had been voted dead long before the current President took office.
There are studies saying that Total Solar Irradiance varies by as much as 0.2% per day (due to level and location of sunspots). This represents a huge amount of energy but they aren't sure if it affects weather. The atmosphere actually expands during Solar Maximums.
I just really don't see how ANY model can hope to gather all of these items together to come up with viable trends and solutions to global climate change.
No, my point is more along the lines of "correlation does not equal causation".
The best example is probably the infamous "hockey stick" warming graph. It appears that putting random data into it the controls used create a hockey stick result every time.
I'm not saying that the people shouting about the science of global warming are idiots I'm saying that the issue is far more complex than most people appreciate.
The issue about sun spots and increased solar output goes to the fact that even if Kyoto were fully implemented the overall mean temperature change expected from it could be easily wiped out by another increase in solar output. Conversely a decrease in solar output could create the exact same effect as Kyoto without a single polution control being put in place.
Does this mean we shouldn't do anything about pollution? Of course not, in fact, if you look at the records you'll see that we've already done quite a lot to combat pollution. Further efforts should be encouraged just don't run around screaming "fire".
We've got reports from last year saying the Sun has been brighter recently and we've got higher sunspot activity than we've seen in 1,000 years. linky
My, somewhat ironic, point was that everyone has been so busy pointing fingers at us humans that we forget that we're not the only ones in control of the climate.
I wonder how your memory morphed the fact that Bush's executive order actually provided the first federeal funding for embyronic stem cell research into "a ban on stem cell research".
Be specific please. I'm really quite interested in the list of freedoms that we've lost lately. Simply shouting "The Patriot Act" won't cut it either. Be specific and also highlight how we had those freedoms beforehand.
(I'll start by noting that things like library records were already subpoenable in civil lawsuits.)
You're saying that America has a freedom and government problem? Is this compared to the enlightened government of China?
One of the main points is that China can in fact force their people to go in the direction that they want without having to deal with things like community interaction. Can you imagine the emminent domain kerfluffle over something the size of the Three Gorges Dam project if it was done here in the US? Heck a highway bypass takes forever here.
And hey, if the populace gets TOO rowdy they can just send in the tanks and mow 'em down.
That's kind of an interesting claim from MS's part.
There is no MS issued "LiveCD" for booting a system and running it for Windows XP. Yeah they've got some Recovery Console functionality now but it's lame.
Ironically when a Windows box tanks here we tend to "slap in Knoppix" so that we can at least get into the box and copy out files before nuking and reinstalling.
Tomorrow we'll hunt for the Windows equivalent of the Tom's Root Boot floppy...
Usually an NDA is a way of getting access to information. Either it expires contractually when the information is disclosed or you would lose legal access to the information if you disclosed it.
The problem that Mr. McBride got into was that he was running around shouting "we've got proof", "MIT mathematicians", "millions of lines of code", and other choice phrases.
This certainly made SCO's statements about needing to do more discovery to levy/prove their charges ring hollow. IBM kept saying if it's a copyright infringement then identify the infringing code. SCO never did.
So, talking to the public shouldn't prejudice the case any they just have to be careful not to have their words thrown back at them in court.
Answer 1 - They were shooting at our soldiers. In the case of Afghanistan and Iraq the lawful authority is the relevant UN sanctions that covered the two invasions. (In the Iraq case you can look at UNSC Res 1441 along with the original Gulf War I resolution and the terms of the cease-fire agreed to by Saddam at the end of Gulf War I.)
Answer 2 - The lists have in fact been vetted by various US legal groups (ACLU comes to mind) along with daily visits from the Red Cross.
Answer 3 - The Geneva Conventions are very specific about who is covered. Merely taking up arms doesn't qualify you. You have to be uniformed, acting under an actual command structure, and work to avoid civilian casualties.
You're final paragraph is merely a circular argument or post hoc ergo propter hoc at best.
Here's a question for you - Are the mafia covered under the Geneva conventions?
The point is that the Geneva Conventions define what a lawful combatant is. Anyone operating outside of those strictures is thus violating the convention.
The whole point of the Geneva Conventions were to reduce civilian casualties by declaring civilians illegal targets and ensuring that the people actually doing the fighting can be identified as separate from the civilians.
The people that we are getting all veklempt about are running around dressing as civilians or as (even worse) police and press and deliberately targeting civilians.
You keep getting all mixed up with laws pertaining to US citizens on US soil.
Meanwhile an aid worker is pummelled with stones by "peace loving" Muslims because she happens to be breast feeding her baby in public. "Honor" killings are going on throughout the EU. "Insurgents" are beheading hostages and video taping it.
The point is that there is a threat and there should be a mechanism to deal with it.
That mechanism includes court reviews before subpoenas can be served. The other fact is that anyone can subpoena any records in a suit if they show cause and need.
There's a whole bunch of hand wringing about the new "fascist state" when in fact it is nothing of the sort.
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for "most of your own citizens murdered by government?"
Just go look at East Germany today and you can see how well they were doing in the 1980's.
Get Stallman a set of skis and a leather jacket.
It's time for the show.
Honestly, if this is what they plan on doing with the GPL then you're going to see everyone abandoning the GPL (at least the new version).
Patents and DRM may in fact be a bad thing and they certainly are being abused but this move will just ensure that no one can use the GPL.
While we'd be in trouble due to lack of Chinese parts they'd be in trouble due to lack of US purchases.
The world economy these days is was too intermingled to allow simply cutting out a large player like the US.
Did you know that China is currently in the middle of an oil shortage because of internal price controls?
Actually the copyright holder can withdraw a GPL-ed work's license.
The catch/save/whatever you want to call it is that the GPL was what gave other people the right to copy that work and redistribute to their heart's content. The other people are however restricted to the conditions of the GPL for redistributing the work and any further changes to it. They do, however, hold copyright to the new work added in.
This is also how a copyright holder can take a GPL'd work private with new modifications. The new stuff isn't licensed and they have the right to use the old stuff as the copyright holder and aren't thus bound to the GPL conditions for using the old stuff.
I've cited two sources that said there was no release you've cited on that says there was.
Did you find other detailed descriptions of this sort? My information digging hasn't been able to turn one up except by that author.
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More information here that would suggest that the water was pumped out into a field specifically for dealing with and monitoring the waste not simply pumped out of a basement to empty the basement.
I think the people making the most noise right now are the ones claiming that by not signing Kyoto we've doomed the planet. Of course, they do this to lay tha blame at the feet of the current President rather than acknowledge that Kyoto had been voted dead long before the current President took office.
There are studies saying that Total Solar Irradiance varies by as much as 0.2% per day (due to level and location of sunspots). This represents a huge amount of energy but they aren't sure if it affects weather. The atmosphere actually expands during Solar Maximums.
I just really don't see how ANY model can hope to gather all of these items together to come up with viable trends and solutions to global climate change.
Yeesh, MS rips off states and they get to send out software coupons. MS gets bothered by a spammer and they get cash?
They should be inundated with $5 off herbal viagra supplement coupons.
No, my point is more along the lines of "correlation does not equal causation".
The best example is probably the infamous "hockey stick" warming graph. It appears that putting random data into it the controls used create a hockey stick result every time.
I'm not saying that the people shouting about the science of global warming are idiots I'm saying that the issue is far more complex than most people appreciate.
The issue about sun spots and increased solar output goes to the fact that even if Kyoto were fully implemented the overall mean temperature change expected from it could be easily wiped out by another increase in solar output. Conversely a decrease in solar output could create the exact same effect as Kyoto without a single polution control being put in place.
Does this mean we shouldn't do anything about pollution? Of course not, in fact, if you look at the records you'll see that we've already done quite a lot to combat pollution. Further efforts should be encouraged just don't run around screaming "fire".
We've got reports from last year saying the Sun has been brighter recently and we've got higher sunspot activity than we've seen in 1,000 years. linky
My, somewhat ironic, point was that everyone has been so busy pointing fingers at us humans that we forget that we're not the only ones in control of the climate.
I thought all this warming thing was solely the fault of us people spewing green house gasses.
Take someone sufferring from a chronic autoimmune disorder and place them on massive amounts of immuno-suppressive anti-rejection medicine.
What's wrong with this picture?
I wonder how your memory morphed the fact that Bush's executive order actually provided the first federeal funding for embyronic stem cell research into "a ban on stem cell research".
I guess you could use a few injections yourself.
Be specific please. I'm really quite interested in the list of freedoms that we've lost lately. Simply shouting "The Patriot Act" won't cut it either. Be specific and also highlight how we had those freedoms beforehand.
(I'll start by noting that things like library records were already subpoenable in civil lawsuits.)
You're saying that America has a freedom and government problem? Is this compared to the enlightened government of China?
One of the main points is that China can in fact force their people to go in the direction that they want without having to deal with things like community interaction. Can you imagine the emminent domain kerfluffle over something the size of the Three Gorges Dam project if it was done here in the US? Heck a highway bypass takes forever here.
And hey, if the populace gets TOO rowdy they can just send in the tanks and mow 'em down.
Think of all of the brain power they're devoting to their efforts to keep the populace uninformed and subversive ideas from creeping in.
The great firewall of China is surely a paragon of what happens when China gets their people the opportunity to use their talents better.
But were things any different when America had an undeveloped economy 100 years ago?
Well, let's see. There's this little thing called a Constitution...
That's kind of an interesting claim from MS's part.
There is no MS issued "LiveCD" for booting a system and running it for Windows XP. Yeah they've got some Recovery Console functionality now but it's lame.
Ironically when a Windows box tanks here we tend to "slap in Knoppix" so that we can at least get into the box and copy out files before nuking and reinstalling.
Tomorrow we'll hunt for the Windows equivalent of the Tom's Root Boot floppy...
Usually an NDA is a way of getting access to information. Either it expires contractually when the information is disclosed or you would lose legal access to the information if you disclosed it.
Think of an NDA as just another IP license.
If you were running a site called findadealer.com and were getting some revenue from that site then you could probably be up for conspiracy charges.
I mean the guy's site was called mp3s4free.com, not simply a home page that happened to link to a few mp3's that he thought were cool.
The ISP's are on the hook because they allege that they ISP's actively worked with him to drive traffic and ad revenue for the business.
The problem that Mr. McBride got into was that he was running around shouting "we've got proof", "MIT mathematicians", "millions of lines of code", and other choice phrases.
This certainly made SCO's statements about needing to do more discovery to levy/prove their charges ring hollow. IBM kept saying if it's a copyright infringement then identify the infringing code. SCO never did.
So, talking to the public shouldn't prejudice the case any they just have to be careful not to have their words thrown back at them in court.
17.1?!? Bah.
Who has the googlephonic hifi stero with the record player and the moon rock needle?
Answer 1 - They were shooting at our soldiers. In the case of Afghanistan and Iraq the lawful authority is the relevant UN sanctions that covered the two invasions. (In the Iraq case you can look at UNSC Res 1441 along with the original Gulf War I resolution and the terms of the cease-fire agreed to by Saddam at the end of Gulf War I.)
Answer 2 - The lists have in fact been vetted by various US legal groups (ACLU comes to mind) along with daily visits from the Red Cross.
Answer 3 - The Geneva Conventions are very specific about who is covered. Merely taking up arms doesn't qualify you. You have to be uniformed, acting under an actual command structure, and work to avoid civilian casualties.
You're final paragraph is merely a circular argument or post hoc ergo propter hoc at best.
Here's a question for you - Are the mafia covered under the Geneva conventions?
The point is that the Geneva Conventions define what a lawful combatant is. Anyone operating outside of those strictures is thus violating the convention.
The whole point of the Geneva Conventions were to reduce civilian casualties by declaring civilians illegal targets and ensuring that the people actually doing the fighting can be identified as separate from the civilians.
The people that we are getting all veklempt about are running around dressing as civilians or as (even worse) police and press and deliberately targeting civilians.
You keep getting all mixed up with laws pertaining to US citizens on US soil.
Meanwhile an aid worker is pummelled with stones by "peace loving" Muslims because she happens to be breast feeding her baby in public. "Honor" killings are going on throughout the EU. "Insurgents" are beheading hostages and video taping it.
The point is that there is a threat and there should be a mechanism to deal with it.
That mechanism includes court reviews before subpoenas can be served. The other fact is that anyone can subpoena any records in a suit if they show cause and need.
There's a whole bunch of hand wringing about the new "fascist state" when in fact it is nothing of the sort.